The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 282, according to a new report from the DRC Ministry of Health. The document states that the outbreak is mainly concentrated in Ituri Province, which accounts for 264 of the 282 confirmed cases nationwide. Fifteen confirmed cases have been reported in North Kivu Province, and three more in South Kivu Province. The report adds that 42 people have died, while 238 are currently receiving treatment.
Cases in places where people know not to screw around with corpse blood doing weird voodoo stuff tend to get contained p quick (see: the original Marburg outbreak in Germany and Yugoslavia)